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vhs madness
In view of the fact that I'm going to be moving out of here in a few months I've been going through some of my stuff. Oh my god. I keep everything. I have instruction manuals for electrical items which died about ten years ago. Although what is nice about being a hoarder is that I can look at letters that my friends wrote to me in 1993 and look at my old passports and train tickets and cinema tickets and remember what I was doing on 23rd September 1999 if I so wish. I think I've kept every single cinema ticket since about 1999. Is that a bit strange?
What's most upsetting is the vast amount of videos I have of things I've recorded off the TV. Odyssey 5, seasons 2 and 5 of Angel, season 3 of Smallville, seasons 1 and 2 of Enterprise, seasons 5, 6 and 7 of SG-1 (1 - 4 are on DVD - I donated the video copies to a friend), every single episode of Deep Space Nine, The Next Generation and Voyager (god knows why), season 7 of Buffy and probably some other random things like 24. Some of these I've got on DVD now and some I'm never going to watch again (season 3 Smallville, I'm looking at you). Do I just lob the ones I don't want in the dustbin? That feels really wrong somehow.
In other news, the weather has been really crappy this weekend and Oscar went totally lame after the farrier came out on Saturday. He had to have his shoes taken off but that only seemed to make him worse. He's a little better now but he doesn't want to put his left fore foot down. Hmmm. I'm not sure if the farrier has nicked him with a nail. If he's no better tomorrow the farrier's going to have to come out and have another look at him. Arse.
We had an incident that's funny, but not actually that funny when you think about what could have happened - one of the other horses on the field swallowed the string on a balloon that had floated into our field (Happy 40th Birthday!). Of course, the balloon was still attached to the end of the string hanging out of his mouth and it followed him around. He completely freaked out and we could only catch him when he was so tired that he couldn't run any more. The string came out okay and all was fine. It could have been nasty, but I'm just left with this image of a pony running around with a balloon trailing behind him.
What's most upsetting is the vast amount of videos I have of things I've recorded off the TV. Odyssey 5, seasons 2 and 5 of Angel, season 3 of Smallville, seasons 1 and 2 of Enterprise, seasons 5, 6 and 7 of SG-1 (1 - 4 are on DVD - I donated the video copies to a friend), every single episode of Deep Space Nine, The Next Generation and Voyager (god knows why), season 7 of Buffy and probably some other random things like 24. Some of these I've got on DVD now and some I'm never going to watch again (season 3 Smallville, I'm looking at you). Do I just lob the ones I don't want in the dustbin? That feels really wrong somehow.
In other news, the weather has been really crappy this weekend and Oscar went totally lame after the farrier came out on Saturday. He had to have his shoes taken off but that only seemed to make him worse. He's a little better now but he doesn't want to put his left fore foot down. Hmmm. I'm not sure if the farrier has nicked him with a nail. If he's no better tomorrow the farrier's going to have to come out and have another look at him. Arse.
We had an incident that's funny, but not actually that funny when you think about what could have happened - one of the other horses on the field swallowed the string on a balloon that had floated into our field (Happy 40th Birthday!). Of course, the balloon was still attached to the end of the string hanging out of his mouth and it followed him around. He completely freaked out and we could only catch him when he was so tired that he couldn't run any more. The string came out okay and all was fine. It could have been nasty, but I'm just left with this image of a pony running around with a balloon trailing behind him.